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An exhibit platform for collective storytelling & community archives

About DigitalArc

Digital Archiving & Storytelling for Historically Excluded Communities

DigitalArc provides relatively easy and inexpensive approaches to organizing, collecting and publishing your histories. More than platforms for publishing your stories and processes for capturing your stories, DigitalArc focuses on the people who contribute their stories. Visit the About DigitalArc page to learn more.

Whether your community leads the entire digital archiving initiative, from start to finish, or you partner with local organizations, we provide guidance from planning to publishing your digital archive. Our goal is to provide step-by-step instructions that can be easily tailored for your community needs so you can lead and manage this whole process. The stories you are sharing are yours. You should have options for managing how your stories are shared.

DigitalArc Values

The DigitalArc project team’s values center community ownership, scaffolded learning, equity, sustainability, transparency and a commitment to everyday histories. Visit DigitalArc Values to learn more.

Community & Campus Partners

This list is slowly growing as we develop relationship with community and campus partners.

DigitalArc Highlights

Visit DigitalArc Highlights to learn more..

  • Group
    Michelle Dalmau leads introductions.
  • McKenya Dilworth
    McKenya Dilworth introduces herself to Oxford, OH and Roberts Settlement Partners.
  • Gary partners
    Gary Partners Maya Etienne, Joslyn Washington Kelly, and McKenya Dilworth walk through the check-in station to practice leading a History Harvest.
  • Sutton
    Dr. Jazma Sutton speaks about her research on descendant archival practices.
  • Group2
    Workshop attendees and organizers.
  • Glover
    Bryan Glover, Vice President of Roberts Settlement, annouces upcoming Homecoming.
  • Photography
    Dr. Kalani Craig addresses the importance of metadata in organizing object photographs.

About the DigitalArc team

Our team got its start at the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University Bloomington and is now funded by the Digital Justice Development Grant program at the American Council on Learned Societies.

Principal Project Team:

  • Kalani Craig, Co-PI
  • Michelle Dalmau, PI
  • Vanessa Elias, Co-PI
  • Jazma Sutton, Co-PI

About this Jekyll Theme

While the DigitalArc design theme doesn’t need to be customized, you can if you have the expertise.

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How it started

In 2017, the IDAH@IU team started getting requests to support archiving projects. This repository is the result of a long history of partnerships both in and outside of IDAH, which was sunsetted in 2024. The work here represents partnerships with Jazma Sutton, ImaginX en Movimiento (IXeM) co-founded by Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz; La Casa, the Center for Research on Race, Ethnicity and Society, and the Asian Culture Center at Indiana University Bloomington; and the Remembering Freedom descendant community in Greenville and Longtown, Ohio, which hosts the community-archive project that inspired the initial development of this theme’s predecessor, the Community-Archive template.

DigitalArc Team, 2024 - 2025. DigitalArc Jekyll Theme by Kalani Craig is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Framework: Foundation 6.